Glorious rain!

It rained yesterday -- for the first time since we moved here over six months ago! Most of the time it was actually just sprinkling, but since it went on for most of the day, I'll go ahead and call it rain. I suspect that here, rain is just rain, kind of like snow is just snow in the Pacific Northwest. But in Alaska there are numerous terms for all the different kinds of snow. And in the PNW there are lots of terms for rain -- rain, drizzle, sprinkle, spattering, mist, downpour, torrent, pitter-patter, etc. But here, where rain is as scarce as snow is in the Northwest, it's all just rain -- and we'll take all we can get!